I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I….

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students..

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them..

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school….

Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. W….

Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that y….

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to t….

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember….

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their plann….

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater..

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong..

I hated being a public company CEO..

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefi….

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops..

The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've.….

The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As ….

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month..

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there..

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basi….

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solut….

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you ….